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Postgraduate Research Students

Name Degree Research Area Contact Info. Room No.
Literary Studies
Au Wai Ching Aerith Ph.D. Creative writing; YA literature; cultural studies; postcolonial studies; literature and film; Asian American literature 3943 5713 Rm 308
CAI Xiaoqian Charlotte Ph.D. Victorian literature, poetry and poetics, literature and philosophy, literature and religion 3943 5710 Rm 303C
CHIM Wung Cheong Raphael Ph.D. Literature and religion; empiricism, determinism, and literature; Japanese and Comparative Philosophy 3943 5713 Rm 308
CHUNG Elizabeth Edith Ph.D. Hong Kong Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Identity and Local Cultures, Creative Writing, Subaltern Voices, Popular Culture, Canonical Influences. 3943 7016 Rm 312
DALY Stephen Paul Ph.D. Nineteenth and twentieth century literature; American Gothic; modernism 3943 5712 Rm 306
FUNG Angela Ph.D. Posthumanism, biopolitics, AI in literature, speculative fiction, science fiction, contemporary novel 3943 5712 Rm 306
FU Xinyue Mary Ph.D. Environmental Humanities; Ecocriticism; Anthropocene Fiction; Posthumanism; Animal Studies; Realism; Postcolonialism; Asian American Literature 3943 5710 Rm 303C
HARLING Alice Victoria Ph.D. Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture; Brontë Studies; Cognitive Linguistics; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Feminist Literary Criticism 3943 7001 Rm 303A
HSU Yuk Kwan Amanda Ph.D. Enlightenment humanism; posthumanism; realist and naturalist literature; speculative fiction; literature in English by Asian writers    
LI Yulin Jasmine Ph.D. Postcolonialism, postmodernism, philosophy and literature, literary theory 3943 5710 Rm 303C
LIU Yiyi Pareys Ph.D. Creative writing; poetry and poetics; women's writing; interdisciplinary creative practices; autoethnography; media and social memory studies. 3943 5713 Rm 308
LIU Ziyuan Leonard Ph.D. Comparative literature; Postmodernism; Contemporary fiction; Latin American literature in 20th century. 3943 7001 Rm 303A
MA Qianyi Iris Ph.D. Postmodern Mythologies& Alien Women Figures& Gender and Sexuality Studies& Women’s Literature& Speculative Fiction& Creative Writing. 3943 7001 Rm 303A
SHING Tung Yi Roxanne M.Phil. Hong Kong literature; gender and sexuality studies; reception and reader-response studies. 3943 7016 Rm 312
TANG Bin Brittany Ph.D. Shakespeare, adaptation, literary translation, globalization and multiculturalism 3943 5710 Rm 303C
YUEN Wai Shiu Ernest M.Phil. Romanticism, especially William Blake and John Keats; Dante and Romanticism; Romanticism and London; literature and locality; feminist criticism 3943 7016 Rm 312
ZHENG Kaiyun Aqua Ph.D. Modern and contemporary poetry; photo-poetics and embodied poetics; multimodal creative writing; autoethnography; graphic novels and videogame studies. 3943 5710 Rm 303C
ZHOU Ying Zoe Ph.D. Modern poetry, especially Irish Poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries; language and poetic forms; literary modernism; cultural studies 3943 5712 Rm 306
 
Applied English Linguistics
CHANG Xingyu Anano Ph.D. Automated English writing evaluation, English language learning motivation and engagement, English language education, Second language acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Quantitative approaches 3943 5711 Rm 304
DING Yanyin Kris Ph.D. Digital Discourse Analysis, Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Language Use in Digital Age 3943 7021 Rm 314
HOU, Yiran Ph.D. Digital literacies, digital discourse analysis, heteroglossia, gender identity. 3943 5711 Rm 304
LI Jianjun Danny Ph.D. Reading Motivation; Second Language Acquisition; ISLA; Corpus Linguistics 3943 5714 Rm 310
LIAO Ran Cecily Ph.D. Semiotic landscape, health communication, multimodality, onomastics, sociolinguistics 3943 5717 Rm 303B
LIU Guangxiang Leon Ph.D. Informal digital learning of English, digital literacies, identity and investment, social class, linguistic landscape, Educational measurement 3943 5714 Rm 310
OLIVEIRA DA SILVA Fabrício Ph.D. English for Academic Purposes, Critical ESP (English for Specific Purposes), Needs Analysis, Learner Autonomy 3943 5714 Rm 310
OU Shufen Christy Ph.D. Linguistic landscapes, multimodality, sociolinguistics, urban discourse 3943 7021 Rm 314
SEYMOUR, Christopher Gethen Hardwick Ph.D. Vocabulary acquisition; corpus linguistics; reading; intentional and incidental learning; attentional processing; constructed salience; eye tracking; impact of first language in second language acquisition; near-synonym acquisition 3943 5717 Rm 303B
SUN Jiaxin Victoria Ph.D. Translanguaging pedagogy, bi/multilingual education, English language education. 3943 5717 Rm 303B
TRAN Minh Hoang Henry Ph.D. Testing and evaluation, academic vocabulary, vocabulary teaching and teaching, material design, second language acquisition (SLA), and gamification (technology) 3943 5714 Rm 310
WANG Honglan Ella Ph.D. Second language acquisition (SLA), task-based language teaching (TBLT), corpus linguistics, English grammar, World Englishes 3943 5711 Rm 304
ZHANG Wenrui Rachel Ph.D. Second Language Acquisition, Task-based Language Teaching, Spoken English 3943 7021 Rm 314